If adolescents do not receive appropriate assistance in quitting smoking, they are highly likely to become regular
smokers when they enter adulthood. Thus, an effective smoking-cessation program is required. A program was
designed based on both the smoking-cessation barriers reported by students and effective strategies derived
from the literature. We assigned 143 student smokers from 6 vocational high schools to intervention (n = 78)
and comparison groups (n = 65). Data were collected at the baseline, the end of the program, and 1- and 4-
month follow-up time points. For the intervention group, the smoking-abstinence rates confirmed using the
urine cotinine test were 22.73% at the end of the program and 20.75% at the 4-month follow-up point. Days
smoked in the past month, number of cigarettes smoked per day, and the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence
score of the intervention group decreased at all of the time points. The group differences in these variables
were statistically significant; the magnitude of effect sizes ranged from 0.44 to 0.95. Multicomponent programs
addressing smoking-cessation barriers that students encounter can help adolescents quit smoking.
If adolescents do not receive appropriate assistance in quitting smoking, they are highly likely to become regular
smokers when they enter adulthood. Thus, an effective smoking-cessation program is required. A program was
designed based on both the smoking-cessation barriers reported by students and effective strategies derived
from the literature. We assigned 143 student smokers from 6 vocational high schools to intervention (n = 78)
and comparison groups (n = 65). Data were collected at the baseline, the end of the program, and 1- and 4-
month follow-up time points. For the intervention group, the smoking-abstinence rates confirmed using the
urine cotinine test were 22.73% at the end of the program and 20.75% at the 4-month follow-up point. Days
smoked in the past month, number of cigarettes smoked per day, and the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence
score of the intervention group decreased at all of the time points. The group differences in these variables
were statistically significant; the magnitude of effect sizes ranged from 0.44 to 0.95. Multicomponent programs
addressing smoking-cessation barriers that students encounter can help adolescents quit smoking.
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